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Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and waters, and the pomp of summer. They heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks. We

Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and waters, and the pomp of summer. They heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks. We observe their intellectual influence on the most serious student. They refine and clear his mind: teach him to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Summer, Stars
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.436

The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Solitude, Secret
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.398

Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Retirement, Solitude, Towns
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1028, Library of America

The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essence, Solitude, Faces
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2744, Delphi Classics

But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual, Solitude, Isolation
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.19, Penguin

My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strength, Solitude, Solitary
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.347, Рипол Классик

Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sympathy, Hands, Solitude

Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Thinking, Rude
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.97, Harvard University Press

The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cheer, Powerful, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.238, Harvard University Press

Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Facts, Novelists
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.101, Harvard University Press

We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it leaves us where we were. It names things, but does not add things.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Exercise, Names, Doe
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.404, Рипол Классик

Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Class, Literature, Interest
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.199

The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Men, Effort
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.158, Penguin

Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Land, Long, Independence
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.52, Harvard University Press

Good criticism is very rare and always precious.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Criticism
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.390

A man should give us a sense of mass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Integrity, Men, Giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.197, Cosimo, Inc.

I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. All men, all things, the state, the church, yea the friends of the heart are phantasms and unreal beside the sanctuary of the heart. With so much awe, with so much fear, let it be respected.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Integrity, Heart, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.258

The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,--travel a whole day together,--looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Country, Sex, Flower
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1220, Delphi Classics

A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gossip, Brain, Wish
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.124, Harvard University Press

The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
School, Men, May
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.206

The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Class, Friendly, Action
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.479, Рипол Классик

The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Plato, Book, Genius
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.168, Graphic Arts Books

The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties which are none of his.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live Life, Men, Intellectual
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.48, Graphic Arts Books

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mind, Heroic, Cowardice
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.16, 谷月社

The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking, Degrees, Violence
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.167, Penguin

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